The value of an early stage life science company is tied to its documentation. Transitioning from an informal environment where documents exist on local desktops, email exchanges and in extreme cases of old world technology, filing cabinets, to a structured, digital document system is a key step in securing a company’s intellectual property. Risk of losing files or the most recent versions of files, due to simple human error, increases in orders of magnitude as your stack of documents and team grows over time.

We have all heard of the high profile security breaches at the U.S. Department of Defense in the last few years — from state sponsored hackers stealing nearly 25,000 files related to new weapon systems to an army soldier providing secret documents to WikiLeaks, among others. The fact that those breaches occurred on supposedly secure systems that DOD and its industry partners have operated for years shows just how challenging...